During clinical consultation doctors and nurses interview patients about their medical history. But, patients are usually not prepared for the clinical consultation. In theory, if patients administer their medical history on a computer/tablet before their appointment with the doctor or nurse, then they should be prompted and prepared for the medical history interview. This is one of the hypothetical advantages of patient-administered computerized history taking systems/automated medical history taking systems. What quantitative and/or qualitative factors measures exist that would assess if patients are prepared for the medical history interview?
I'm actually interested in identifying doctor-patient communication and non-communication measures that would determine if a group of patients who took an electronic medical history questionnaire were more prepared for a clinical consultation compared to a group that didn't take the electronic history questionnaire.
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Electronic health record systems (EHR) enable self-administration and monitoring by patients although costs can be high.
For those interested in the bottom line: I do not know what quantitative or qualitative measures exist to assess patient preparedness for a medical-history interview with a doctor/nurse.
I'm answering the question because I want to mention some people who might have relevant information. Drs. Raymond Sturner and Barbara Howard, in Baltimore, Maryland, who are affiliated with Johns Hopkins, began in the early 1990s developing CHADIS, an electronic system for collecting information from parents about the developmental issues of their child and then using that information in a clinical consultation. There is a CHADIS website: https://www.chadis.com/site/content/about-chadis that you could check, and it should be possible to reach Drs. Sturner or Howard, possibly through ResearchGate. I also believe that Drs. Sheldon Greenfield and Sherrie Kaplan, at the University of California Irvine, some years ago did work trying to prepare diabetic patients for their visits with physicians.
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